Impure worlds the institution of literature in the age of the novel / Jonathan Arac.

Author/creator Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press,
Descriptionxiii, 210 p. ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
Fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History. --19th century.
Literature and society--History. --19th century.

Contents Part I. Politics and the canon. The impact of Shakespeare: Goethe to Melville; The media of sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on King Lear; Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the history of character; The struggle for the cultural heritage: Christina Stead refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain; The birth of Huck's nation -- Part II. Language and reality in the age of the novel. Narrative form and social sense in Bleak house and the French Revolution; Rhetoric and realism: hyperbole in The mill on the floss; Rhetoric and realism; or, Marxism, deconstruction, and Madame Bovary; Baudelaire's impure transfers: allegory, translation, prostitution, correspondence; Huckleberry Finn without polemic.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010013605
ISBN9780823231782 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN082323178X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823231799 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0823231798 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823231805 (ebook)
ISBN0823231801 (ebook)

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